Phil Bronstein

The government does cover 'the Shooter's' health care: 'Stars and Stripes'

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Yesterday's Esquire opus on the SEAL Team 6 shooter who killed Osama bin Laden, left the Navy after 16 years, and now finds himself unemployed with no pension or health coverage, made waves. And it continues to today, thanks to the assertion by Stars and Stripes that the piece,...
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'Esquire' talks to 'the Shooter'

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In what will likely be the day's second-biggest talker , Esquire and the Center for Investigative Reporting have published an interview with the SEAL Team 6 member who shot Osama bin Laden. Phil Bronstein, the executive chair of CIR, spent a year talking to the anonymous shooter (referred to as...
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Former boss weighs in on illegal immigrant's confession

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The editor-at-large of the San Francisco Chronicle was "duped" by his former employee Jose Antonio Vargas, the journalist who recently admitted to being an illegal immigrant . "Jose lied to me and everyone else he worked for, and that's not kosher, especially in a profession where facts and,...
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'Overreaction' to foot odor part of bizarre pattern bared in custody order

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Actress Sharon Stone consistently overreacted to what she saw as medical issues involving her young son and once planned to use botox injections in his feet to stop foot odor, TMZ reports. The bizarre behavior surfaced in a judge's ruling granting custody of 8-year-old Roan to his father, San Francisco...
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